Battle of Bermellar

The Battle of Bermellar (late April 1811) was a battle of the Peninsular War that occurred when the 929-strong Allied army under Viscount Wellington defeated a smaller army of 303 French troops under Jean-Jacques Hebert at Bermellar in the Salamanca region of western Spain. The French forces failed to attack the British and Portuguese firing lines, who broke the French regiments up with shattering volleys of massed firepower, something that the numerically-inferior French forces lacked. The French were defeated in the battle, and their small army was wiped out.